I had forgotten just how Internet-dependent our business has become. I came in this morning, and the DSL connection wasn’t up. I went to call my boss to let him know so he could call the appropriate people to get it fixed. But I only have his number stored in our online contact management system.
I had to be creative, today, to even find tasks I could take on without the help of the internet. There weren’t many. All of my files are stored online. The two projects I’m currently managing are Internet developments. I can’t do any testing if I can’t get online. I can’t email my developer if I can’t get online. So much is dependent for this company to be online. I’m surprised we were as successful as we were today.
I’ve learned that I can get by without having Outlook check my email every minute. I find I actually got things done. I would start on a task, and compete it, without stopping. When I had Outlook sending me a constant stream of email, I’d find myself stopping every ten minutes or so to take care of something that “couldn’t wait.” We’ll see how I feel about this whenever I check my Inbox in a few minutes from home, but I am a really big fan of the interruption free day I had.
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Last Halloween, my office got a virus that had us disconnected from all of our shared files, email, and internet for nearly 3 weeks. The consultants who came in to assist our IT department told us that we were lucky that we're a non-profit. Any for-profit office in the same spot would have gone out of business.
So, I totally feel your pain!
I have the unfortunate tendency to "surf" the internet when I have nothing else to do. As a result I end up spending more money than I need to online. Whenever the internet or my computer is down, I discover things like "reading" and "drawing" again. Makes me feel like a pioneer or something.
Ummm, you do know you can change your outlook settings, so that it gathers new mail less frequently? Before we switched to gmail corporate, I had mine set to check mail only every half hour--which meant I got thirty minutes of interruption free work instead of 2.
I know, I just (used to) like to be on top of things. Now i've seen the light. It's not powered by the internet.
You know, I think you could turn the whole "The day the internet died" into a song. Set to American Pie of course.
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